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This 75 MPH electric car with bicycle pedals to charge it is apparently the real deal

I know, it sounds too crazy to be true, but the Vigoz by French company Cixi is an honest-to-goodness pedalable vehicle with a top speed of up to 120 km/h (75 mph). And it looks pretty slick, too. I’m not sure if it’s technically an electric “car” since it only has three wheels, but it’s definitely an electric vehicle. I don’t think we can quite call it an electric bike (or e-trike)…
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DefenseNews

Military ground robots now come with amphibious skills

TROIA, Portugal — Rheinmetall Canada said it has successfully tested an unmanned ground vehicle in a novel scenario, plunging the robot into the Atlantic Ocean to see it crawl out on a sandy beach here as part of a NATO military exercise. The vehicle was the latest version…
DefenseNews

Dutch radar firm Robin turns bird-spotting skills into drone defense

PARIS — Robin Radar got into drone detection in the early 2010s, when the company needed predictable targets to validate its bird-spotting radars, founder and CEO Siete Hamminga recalls. The Dutch startup considered partnering with a pigeon club to release homing pigeons, the executive told Defense News in an interview at the DSEI UK defense show in London earlier this month. In the end, the…
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GamingNews

Borderlands 4: What to Expect in the Game

Borderlands 4 is rife with overpowered builds that use what developer Gearbox has described as “unintended interactions” to cause massive damage, even to the game’s toughest bosses on the hardest difficulties. The most infamous of these is ‘the knife,&#8217…
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Gearbox Issues and How to Troubleshoot Them

Since Borderlands 4 came out, developer Gearbox has released a PC-focused patch that tackles crashes, among a few other things. But players are wondering what the studio intends to do about the looter shooter’s balance, especially at a time when builds that let you…
CryptoNews

Crypto Advocate Carl Moon Donates $400,000 to KidsOR, Urges Charities to Accept Crypto

Swedish entrepreneur and crypto advocate has donated over $400,000 to Kids Operating Room (KidsOR) and has urged charities to embrace cryptocurrency donations, citing their potential to simplify giving and expand global donor reach. Crypto Advocate Donates $400,000 to KidsOR , also known as Carl Moon, a prominent Swedish entrepreneur and cryptocurrency advocate, has donated more than $400,000 to…
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NewsSpace

How do particle colliders work?

Particle accelerators, also known as particle colliders or atom smashers, have been responsible for some of the most exciting physics findings over the past century, including the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson, the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs…
NewsSpace

This new NASA astronaut candidate has already been to space

One of NASA’s newly announced astronaut candidates already has a spaceflight under her belt. On Monday (Sept. 22), the space agency announced the 10 members of its newest astronaut class — five men and five women who will train for potential missions to commercial space stations in Earth orbit, at the moon and (perhaps) on Mars. One of the 10 is Anna Menon, who already has extensive…
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